Beauty parlor rolling auxiliary chair



J. W@ .ADAMS BEAUTY `"PARLOR RGLL'ING AUXIUIARYCHIR Mafy 24, 1949.

2 'shuts-sheet v2 Filed sept. 50, 1946 IN VEN TOR.

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Fira/WMU( Patented May 24, 1949 UNITED STATES .@d'i'ENT QFFICE Y BEAUTY PARLOR ROLLING AUXILIARY CHAIR 2 Claims.

This invention relates to chairs, and more particularly to a new and improved beauty parlor rolling auxiliary chair for use in beauty parlors, barber shops or the like, to permit the beauty operator or barber to remain seated while performing his work. Most beauty salons and barber shops today have expensive floor `coverings which will not permit the running of a wheel, or other type of support thereover, especially while the same is carrying the weight of a human body. I have provided a new and improved self-contained chair for use by barbers or beauty operators so that they may remain seated at all times, and while in a seated position, move the seat and container housing their working tools in a semicircular arc about the subject being worked upon.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved beauty or barber chair which is self-contained and permits the user to remain seated in order to relieve said operator of the extremely tiring effects of long continued standing.

Another object of the invention is to provide a new and improved self-contained chair having a stool seat which may be quickly moved in a horizontal plane in a semi-circular arc about the chair, and may also be quickly elevated or lowered to the desired height required by the user.

A still further object is to provide a new and improved self-contained chair so designed that the movable seat may be quickly detached from the chair frame should the barber or beauty operator desire to stand while working.

The above and other objects will appear more clearly from the following more detailed des-cription, and from the drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of the chair per se showing the self-contained chair and movable seat mounted upon superimposed trackways.

Fig. 2 is also a front perspective view showing the chair framework and the detailed construe tion of the tubing and trackways.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the chair.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing a section of the upper and lower track members and the manner in which the movable stool is mounted thereon and the means for raising and lowering the stool.

Fig. 5 is a section taken substantially on the line 5--5 of Fig. 3 showing the releasing means for removing a section of the upper trackway.

Fig. 6 is a section taken substantially on the line 6 6 of Fig. 4 showing in detail the manner in which the movable stool may be raised or lowered.

Fig. 7 is a section taken substantially on the line 'I-'l of Fig. 3 showing the upper and lower mountings of the rollers on the trackways. v

Fig. 8 is a section taken substantially on the line 8 8 of Fig. 7 showing how the upper double rollers are mounted on the upper trackway.

Fig. 9 is a modification of Fig. 1 showing the the trackways circular; and

Fig. 10 ls a modiiication showing the device secured to the conventional barber chair. j

Referring now to the drawings, the numeral `I5 designates the chair per se. The chair may b e constructed in any conventional manner, but as shown best in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, I have designed the same in the so-called modern manner using hollow steel tubing, which is light and strong. Aluminum or magnesium tubing may be used and diilerent types oi cushions, styled and formed to make the chair comfortable and attractive, may be used. As shown best yin Figs. 2 and 3 there are provided rectangular trackways I6, l1, built or formed integrally with the chair proper to form a pair of superimposed supports or trackways for a movable stool I8, said trackways being supported by a plurality of laterally extending supporting tube members I9 which in turn not only support the upper and lower tl'ackways, but hold the same away from the chair frame proper and allow the stool to move in a horizontal plane.

The movable stool I8 comprises a rectangular frame 20 adapted to support a seat, a portion of said frame 23, Fig. being adapted to t telescopically into a hollow tube 24, Fig. 6, so that stool l 8 may be raised, held or lowered, by means of wing nut member 25. the stem of which may be inserted into any one of grooves 26 formed in tube 23 to receive same. Frame section 2| is also rectangular in shape and partially supported by tube 24, and is adapted to receive and carry a tool box 22, Fig. 1, so that the same is at all times adjacent the operator sitting upon stool I8. A section El of frame 2l, Fig. 4, is formed to rest upon and is secured to a pair of lJ-shaped supports 28, which are an integral part of a pair of roller supports 29, which in turn rotatably support flanged rollers 3l), which in turn roll on track I 6, one set of rollers being double, as shown in Figs. 4 and 7, to hold the movable stool frame upon upper track Iii. Roller supports 29 are so constructed that they do not interfere with lateral track supports I9, the roller supporting members being on the outer side of the track I9 at all times, as shown best in Fig. 8. The lower portion of tube 24 has formed thereon a roller support 3l adapted to rotatably carry flanged.,

roller 32, which in turn rolls upon lower track I1. A housing 33 is secured to section 21 of frame 2l and is provided to house rollers 30, and move therewith to prevent said rollers coming into contact with the' clothing of the operator or person being worked upon.

It is to be noted, Fig. 4, that the tubular stool 3 support 24 is bent to allow sucient space from the trackways, I6, l1, so that the operator may sit comfortably thereon and have suicient leg room to allow the seat to movefreely upon its tracks.

So that the complete stool assembly may be moved from its trackways for repairs, or should the operator choose to stand while working and desire the stool member off the trackways, there is provided a section of removable trackway 34, Figs. 2, 3 and 5, the same comprising .a section of the upper trackway i6, said section'34, when in operating alignment with track 16, being held in place by means of slideable bolt member 35 which may be quickly moved to one sideto with- .draw the bolt and allow the section to be lifted out oi the trackway 16.

Fig. '9 discloses a trackway I6 form-edcircular "in place of the substantially rectangular trackwayshown in Figs. 1 and 2 ofthe drawings, and Fig. discloses the .device secured to the con- .ilentiona'l barber chair found inmost barber shops today. The trackway I6 here is supported by means of lateral supports-radiating from a sleeve .,or'base member found on most conventional bar- 'berchairs, and the lower trackway l'i is supported .bymeans ,of radial supporting members 36, which take the place of the lateral supports which- -hold the lower trackway to the leg members `oi the preferred construction. With this construction `-the chair is stili self-contained, the seo01 being Ventirely supported bythe barber chair KVper se which eliminates the use of wheels or other oor A:supporting members which would leavemarksV on carpets or linoleum.

The-manner in which the device operates is as ollows:

Should the stool vassembly be disengaged sfrom its-trackways, the user need only move bolt memlber 35 rin the slot provided therefor and remove section 34 -of upper trackway I6. With this section 34 removed, flanged wheel 32 lis then placed upon lower trackway l1 provided to support same, -and flanged wheels 3i) may be slipped onto upper trackway i6, the opposed wheels of bracket 29 riding one directly above the other so that the stool'assembly cannot pull loose from upper trackyway I6. The removable section 34 is then returned to track I6 and the device is ready to use.

The seat and tool boX assembly 24 is so designed that a portion of the tube forming same, 2'I, rests upon and is welded to supports 28, which in turn are part of the wheel assembly, so that the entire assembly may be moved as an `integral 'whole about the trackways in a horizontal plane.

As shown best in Fig. 3, the seat I8 and toolbox '22 are so positioned that the user can sit comfortably away from the chair proper a suiiicient distance so that the subject in the chair can be worked upon. By a simple turn of wing nut 125, Fig. 4, seat frame 2U may be raised or lowered ,to the desired height, and once the position ,desired hasbeen selected, wing nut can again-be turned toen'gage the selected groove 26, Fig. 6, which in turn holds tube section 23 rigid. Roller supports I9 are so formed that they ride outside .of 'track .IS and support 3l above track l1 so that they vat vnoatime interfere with lateral supports I9 and the `stool assembly is free `to roll around the track- Ways I6, I1, upper rollers 30 riding upon track .1:6 andlowerrollerZ on lower track. I1. The tool box`22 .is conveniently placed adjacent seat 'I8 so that the tool needed is at hand whenldesired. By :placing `one foot -onthe `floor the user may push himself in a horizontal plane to the spot desired on the trackways.

The modified form shown in Fig. 9 is the same in principle as the above disclosure, the trackway here being .circularfand, as shown in Fig. 10, the 'device 'is applied to the modern barber chair wherein the upper trackway I6 is secured to a sleeve on the pedestal of the chair and the lower :trackway 11. ssupported by means of supports ...'36, but the stool assembly moves about the trackways as. above described.

1 have disclosed herein a new and improved rbeauty'operators chair, simple in design, yet unique, inasmuch as there is provided a self-contained chair member having movably secured thereto a stool and work-box assembly which may ybe moved -about vsaid chair upon track members `wholly .carried thereby, so that no moving support-at any time touches the iioor or carpeting vto deface same. Should the operator wish to use Vthe stool alone, free from the stool assembly, or 'should the-stool assembly need repair, it can be lquickly disengaged from its trackways by simply removing fa portion of. one of the trackways.

lWhileI have .described vand illustrated a satisfactory'installationthat 'has proven highly successful in :practical operation, it will be `undervstood that `the 'invention is not. limited to speciiic `havingafportion thereof extending downwardly :and having secured thereto a flanged roller riding uponsaid lower vtrackway,` means for raising and lowering :said stool, said upper trackway having a removable section therein to provide means whereby said stool assembly may be disengaged 'from said '.trackways.

rotatably `mounted upon single sided brackets secured .to said 'frame assembly and rolling upon one of said trackways while supporting said framework,said 'framework having a downwardly 'projecting' member terminating in a single sided bracket rotatably supporting a'flanged roller rolling uponthe other -of-.said trackways, means for adjusting the height of said stool and a removable -sectionin one of `said trackways to allow the removal of .said'stool :andtool box assembly from said trackways.

J. WHITNEY ADAMS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the yfile-of this-patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 553,108 Davison Ja-n. 14, 1896 1,149,541 lRees Aug. 10, 1915 1,773,504 Stokes Aug. 19, 1930 1,996,074 "La-Salle Apr. 2, 1935 

